Oh get over it once you have been bit nothing else matters.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
Your post are getting intertwined. I did not take your post as a question of my fears, I was just trying to state that there is NOTHING out there to be afraid of.Originally Posted by Wise Old Owl
It is the woods, the animals don't care if you pass through.
Except for wasps, they are just mean by nature and their concept of protection. I need dollars for every time a note in a plastic bag told me to go left or right and the wasps didn't read it.
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
After some thought I cannot come up with anything that involves the words "snakes" and "night" that is not somehow funny. Now all I can think of is the old Johnny Carson, Karnak skits. Sorry
This is incorrect, the only time tht snakes fly is when they are on a mother****ing plane!You nver see them at night because they fly at night. This is a little known fact because humans don't like to be out at night. the worst is the when they become tangled in your hair while night hiking
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
You should start a thread on that. Karnak's answers to trail questions.
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
As far as a real reply to the question, I've seen plenty of snakes on the trail, hundreds probably, especially in the spring and I have never seen one at night. Since they are cold blooded, they are much less active during the night, I also suspect that they bed down in the evening finding places that are warm and less susceptible to the falling air temperatures.
Never had a problem with a snake either. Most species retreat as fast as possible and if you dont pay attention you can easily miss that they are there at all, even when I have jumped off a rock and practically landed on them, they mostly want to get away from the big scary human. I've had a few black rat snakes coil up defensively, but they alway move off quick if you give the a little space. The only rattler my buddy and I encountered did the same, rattled for a few seconds, then retreated as soon as it was given some space.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
I've only seen two snakes at night, probably because it's too dark to see them all. The first was in '87 was I was camping near Walker Gap on the AT and saw the thing crawling up a hill next to my tent. The other time was on Upper Creek in Pisgah NF when my backpacking buddy Johnny went to his tent around midnight and found a copperhead coiled up in his tent vestibule. Wonderful. We moved it into some dog hobble and went to sleep in our separate tents. Just keep your eyes open and your bungholes clenched.
I'd much rather be bit, than violated.
in spite of my daytime skills I go to hammock early..never "tripped" over a snake.... most of the time its folded in front and fit to be tied.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
Exactly how can they become tangled in my hair?!!!You nver see them at night because they fly at night. This is a little known fact because humans don't like to be out at night. the worst is the when they become tangled in your hair while night hiking
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[I]ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: ... Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit....[/I]. Numbers 35
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hehe huh haha ho ho lmao, it's funny when you read then it, then see RainExactly how can they become tangled in my hair?!!!
Rain
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it is............
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
yep, really is.Look again, only this time think Medusa.
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I saw my first snake that was actually real, while hiking just after dark in Maryland just north of the Washington Monument. I find it hardest to see just as its getting dark and I nearly stepped on a very nice opperhead. After pulling my headlamp out to check him out I carefully moved him off the trail and continued on my way. Saw a dozen more later that evening, none of them were real.
I bet! ROTFLMAO!!!! Good one!
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back in march, on one of those days we had record heat, i saw 2 timber rattlers within a half hour right after midday.like you, i "saw them " everywhere the rest of the day! ive got shots of one that lay across the trail(the second one) in my gallery.
WOW how did you get that photo on a a night hike on the AT?
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
It doesn't actually ever get dark on the AT....
used the flash!!
(it was midday.)
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